The purpose of the course is to teach cloud computing concepts and architectures within the context of AWS. In addition, the course will help the students to prepare for the Amazon AWS Solutions Architect certification. The students will become familiar with the Amazon cloud computing architecture and several essential cloud services such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and Relational Database Service (RDS). They will use a variety of business cases to design cloud architectures and solutions using AWS. They will create instances in the cloud and manage their clouds with the help of Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon Cloud Watch, Auto Scaling, and other AWS services.